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Germany's captain Oliver KAHN became the first goalkeeper to win the adidas Golden Ball Award for a FIFA World Cup final competition. The 33-year old, whose heroic saves saw Germany through to the Final, obtained 25% of the votes cast by the media present at the third-place match in Daegu and the Final in Yokohama.

2002 FIFA World Cup: adidas Golden Ball Award

adidas Golden Ball

Oliver KAHN

adidas Silver Ball

RONALDO

adidas Bronze Ball

HONG Myung Bo

votes

in %

Oliver KAHN

GER

147

25%

RONALDO

BRA

126

21%

HONG Myung BO

KOR

108

18%

RIVALDO

BRA

93

16%

RONALDINHO

BRA

54

9%

HASAN SAS

TUR

26

4%

El Hadji DIOUF

SEN

15

3%

ROBERTO CARLOS

BRA

12

2%

Michael BALLACK

GER

6

1%

Fernando HIERRO

ESP

5

1%

592

100%

Three days before the Final, adidas, Official Sponsor, Supplier and Licensee of the 2002 FIFA World Cup(TM), had announced ten nominees for the adidas Golden Ball, arguably the most prestigious individual award in the world of football. Out of these ten nominated players, selected by the the FIFA Technical Study Group, representatives of the media elected the winners of the adidas Golden, Silver and Bronze Ball.

adidas presented a new trophy for this competition. The new trophy carries the names of each of the five former winners: Paolo ROSSI (ITA), Diego MARADONA (ARG), Toto SCHILLACI (ITA), ROMARIO (BRA) and RONALDO (BRA). The names of all future winners will be added to the trophy over the years. The design of the new adidas Golden Ball trophy is based on the historical adidas Chile football from 1962. The trophy will remain the property of adidas and FIFA and will be on permanent display in FIFA House, Zurich, Switzerland.